| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 戰略暨國際事務研究所 === 101 === This research aims at discovering how globalization threats human security in light of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) flows. Globalization, generally can be defined as a process that contains increasing interconnectness, interdependence, transnational flows, and time-space compression. Human security is then a concept and research approach concerning about human-centred security (individuals as referent objects), in contrary to orthodox state-centred security.
While globalization brings about lots of benefits, the negative impacts it brings do threat human security. By analyzing the ways and forms that SALW flows take, it suggests that, besides the fact that large quantity of SALW products are being produced and circulated annually, SALW flows (which take cirtain forms) in fact containing flaws. And, as the legacy of SALW flows, a variety of direct and indirect impacts had also been found to harm human lives.
While returning to the very question that how globalization threats human security, by analyzing aspects of SALW flows, the result shows that globalization has shaped the environment conditions and the underlying causing factors of insecurity, prompted a variety of “cross-border” flows and threats, made actors (on world stage) no longer limited to sovereign states, and made products in the world market interrelated and inseparable. And finally if we analyse the impacts that SALW brings through UNDP’s seven human security aspects, the result shows that every aspect of human security could be under threat.
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